Abstract: Provided is a seatbelt device capable of reliably securing and protecting a passenger. This seatbelt device has a first seatbelt tension increasing unit (9a) for increasing the tension of the seatbelt (4), and a second seatbelt tension increasing unit (9b, 20, 30) for increasing the tension of the seatbelt (4). When this seatbelt device judges that the collision of a vehicle is unavoidable, it operates the first seatbelt tension increasing unit (9a) before the collision and operates the second seatbelt tension increasing unit (9b, 20, 30) when it detects the collision of the vehicle. Thereby, the passenger is reliably secured to the seat and his/her safety is ensured.

Abstract: An automotive passenger restraint and protection apparatus for an automotive vehicle has a seatbelt and operates to restrain an occupant of the automotive vehicle by the seatbelt to protect the occupant. An electric retractor has a DC motor for retracting and protracting the seatbelt. An MPU applies voltage having a predetermined waveform to the DC motor, and then detects a waveform of current flowing to the DC motor. The MPU carries out fault diagnosis of the DC motor, based upon the detected waveform of current when the voltage having the predetermined waveform is applied to the DC motor. Thus, accurate fault diagnosis of the apparatus can be achieved.

Abstract: A seatbelt device which prevents an occupant from hitting his face against an airbag deploying at the time of a vehicle collision. In order to take up any seatbelt slack before a collision and prevent the occupant from being displaced forward, the seatbelt device comprises a first tension modifier for winding the seatbelt and taking up the seatbelt slack when a collision is predicted, and a second tension modifier for further enhancing the tension of the seatbelt and securing the occupant to the seat at the time of such collision, thereby ensuring that the occupant does not exist in the airbag deployment zone when the airbag is activated.

Abstract: An automotive passenger restraint and protection apparatus for an automotive vehicle has a seatbelt and operates to restrain an occupant of the automotive vehicle by the seatbelt to protect the occupant. An electric retractor has a DC motor for retracting and protracting the seatbelt. An MPU applies voltage having a predetermined waveform to the DC motor, and then detects a waveform of current flowing to the DC motor. The MPU carries out fault diagnosis of the DC motor, based upon the detected waveform of current when the voltage having the predetermined waveform is applied to the DC motor. Thus, accurate fault diagnosis of the apparatus can be achieved.

Abstract: Provided is a seatbelt device capable of realizing a comfortable seatbelt-wearing environment as well as appropriately securing and protecting a passenger. The seatbelt device is further capable of realizing an immediate escape or rescue of a passenger after a vehicle accident, thereby providing extra safety and a swift escape by protracting the webbing in accordance with the state of the vehicle accident. This seatbelt device is provided with a retractor which uses a motor for retracting and protracting the webbing that secures a passenger to his/her seat, and a controller for rotating the motor and at least retracting the webbing. The controller is capable of altering the protraction mode of the webbing in accordance with the state of the webbing fastened by the passenger.

Abstract: In a seat belt device comprising a webbing restraining a body of an occupant to a seat and a webbing guide for guiding the webbing in such a manner that the webbing guide comes into slide contact with the webbing, the webbing guide includes an insert fitting, a covering resin which covers the insert fitting by molding, and a metal member with which the webbing comes into slide contact, and the metal member has a surface thereof which comes into contact with the webbing protruded than the covering resin toward a webbing side.

Abstract: An automotive passenger restraint and protection apparatus for an automotive vehicle has a seatbelt and operates to restrain an occupant of the automotive vehicle by the seatbelt to protect the occupant. An electric retractor has a DC motor for retracting and protracting the seatbelt. An MPU controls the DC motor. Protraction of the seatbelt by the occupant is detected. When the protraction of said belt is detected, the MPU controls the DC motor so as to protract the seatbelt.

Abstract: The seat belt apparatus comprises a tongue plate, a buckle base structured such that the tongue plate can be inserted thereinto and removed therefrom, and a switch disposed on the buckle base for detecting the engaged and removed of the tongue plate. The switch is fixed to the buckle base by a rivet.

Abstract: An automotive passenger restraint and protection apparatus for an automotive vehicle has a seatbelt and operates to restrain an occupant of the automotive vehicle by the seatbelt to protect the occupant. An electric retractor has a DC motor for retracting and protracting the seatbelt. An MPU controls the DC motor. Protraction of the seatbelt by the occupant is detected. When the protraction of said belt is detected, the MPU controls the DC motor so as to protract the seatbelt.

Abstract: In a through anchor (10), a webbing sliding contact surface (15) is formed by bending in a curved fashion a lower edge of an opening (14) formed in a metal insert (11) toward a side. The through anchor (10) is covered over portions of the metal insert (11) other than the webbing sliding contact surface (15) with a coating resin (13). Accordingly, it is possible to provide a seat belt assembly that can continue to provide good sliding contact between a webbing guide and webbing, with simple construction.

Abstract: A seat belt device has a gas generator for generating a high pressure gas when the vehicle is in emergency, a cylinder for conducting the high pressure gas from the gas generator, a piston received movably within the cylinder and pressed and moved by the high pressure gas, and a drive unit for rotating a winding shaft of a seat belt retractor in a direction of removing the slack of a belt, using the movement of the piston, wherein the pretensioner is employed with the energy absorbing mechanism, for reversely rotating the winding shaft if a tension acting on the belt exceeds a predetermined value after removing the slack of the belt.

Abstract: In a seat belt device which restrains an occupant to a seat, a tongue plate includes a belt through portion in which a webbing pass-through opening which allows a webbing to pass therethrough is formed and an engaging portion which is engaged with a buckle, and the shape of the webbing pass-through opening includes a straight line portion which is linear in the webbing width direction and has an approximately constant width in the webbing thickness direction and first and second bent portions which have the approximately same width as the width of the straight line portion and respectively extend in the oblique direction from both ends of the straight line portion toward a buckle engaging portion side.

Abstract: A retractor for use with a seat belt webbing, comprising: a retractor base (1); a substantially cylindrical-shaped winding shaft assembly (9) which is rotatably supported on the retractor base (1) and around which a webbing can be wound; a torsion bar (2) to be inserted through a center hole formed in the winding shaft assembly (9) in such a manner that one end thereof is connected to the winding shaft assembly (9) in a mutually unrotatable manner and the other end thereof is connected to a locking member (15) in a mutually unrotatable manner; an emergency lock mechanism (300) which, in a vehicle emergency, connects the locking member to the retractor base to stop the rotation of the torsion bar to thereby prevent the winding shaft assembly from rotating in the webbing pull-out direction thereof, the emergency lock mechanism (300) being structured such that, when the emergency lock mechanism (300) is in operation and also a tensile force acting on the webbing exceeds a given value, the emergency lock mechanis

Abstract: In a seat belt device comprising a webbing restraining a body of an occupant to a seat and a webbing guide for guiding the webbing in such a manner that the webbing guide comes into slide contact with the webbing, the webbing guide includes an insert fitting, a covering resin which covers the insert fitting by molding, and a metal member with which the webbing comes into slide contact, and the metal member has a surface thereof which comes into contact with the webbing protruded than the covering resin toward a webbing side.